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"HELP! Can someone please help?!"

You could hear so many foots running up those stairs, it was unreal. Aries, Gemini, Leo, Sagittarius, Capricorn, & Aquarius filed into the little room.

"What?!"

"What's wrong Libra?"

"You okay?"

"What happened?!"

"What's wrong?"

"Who died?"

Libra was backed against the opposite side of the room, pressing her body against the wall, shaking, with her eyes all teary. Leo went over to check on her, while Aquarius stepped back and looked at the wall around the door, looking for whatever Libra was so afraid of.

"Libra what's wrong?" Leo asked, trying to be all quiet and shit.

"Spider?" Gemini asked, scanning the wall aswell. Libra nodded. Aries backed out of the room, figuring her services weren't required with all these other people.

"Here it is." Aquarius pointed it out. It was no giant, but it was big for a smaller one.

"Dibs!" Sagittarius looked around for something to kill it with for about a second, before taking a deep breath. He yelled, and smacked his hand against the wall, squashing the spider. Instant regret. His face scrunched up, and there was a sound of pain deep in his throat.

"Dude, gross." Gemini furrowed his eyebrows, staring at his friend with mild judgment.

"Leo, wanna high-five?"

"Fuck off Shitface."

"I can really feel the love."

"How can you feel anything other than that arachnid corpse on your hand?" Capricorn decided to take his leave.

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"Hey Scorpio, up top."

Scorpio just glared at his friend. "I'm across the hall from Libra."

"I washed my hand though — good!"

"You need to flush that thing down the toilet." Scorpio scrunched up his nose at his friend's hand, and walked away. He was not doing this today.

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Aries and Caner were on the couch in the basement, cuddled up, and watching a show. Well, really just Cancer was watching the show. Aries was trying to nap, opening her eyes every so often to make a comment. The fire sign had her head tucked into the blonde's shoulder.

"She needs to shut up about her mom," Aries mumbled.

"I mean she's fourteen."

"She talks about it whenever other people talk about their trauma, and expects them to say sorry, but she says nothing to them."

"Just nap, Aries."

There was just a tired groan in response, and Aries just nuzzled her head closer to Cancer's neck, who tensed her shoulder at the sudden change. Aries yawned, her eyes closed.

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Later that night, there was a scream from Cancer's room. Almost everyone came, since pretty much everyone was in their rooms, either getting ready to sleep, or already passed out.

"What?" Asked a tired Virgo, who was just about to fall asleep. Pisces yawned, also tired.

"Sa fucking spider!" Cancer swallowed hard, talking really fast. "Scared the shit out of me."

The creepy crawly was making its way from her nightstand to her wall, trying to get up into the vent on the ceiling.

"I'm out!" And out Libra went, shivering from the sight of the thing.

"I'll get it." Capricorn offered, grabbing Cancer's clipboard from her bed. He moved slowly, to align the thing. When he slammed it onto the wall, the metal clip thing forced it to sit at an angle, so it just crawled out.

Capricorn was promptly smacked in the face with a shoe. "Why?!" He dropped the clipboard.

"I meant to hit the spider, but your head's just too fat." Aries shrugged.

"'ey!" Pisces protested. Aries sighed and mumbled an apology. The short-haired girl smiled.

"Kill it!" Cancer reminded them, and got off her bed, rushing over to the doorframe, and squeezed through everyone, out the door with Libra, taking Taurus with her — by accident, sure, but still.

Capricorn picked up Aries's shoe from off the ground, and promptly smooshed it. He tossed the shoe to Aries, who wrinkled her nose in disgust, due to the whole dead spider on her shoe thing. "Gemini go get me a paper towel."

"I don't wanna go downstairs!" He protested. "It's dark and scary."

"Then get some toilet paper. I gotta clean the wall up."

Libra was well in her room and in her bed, and everyone else was on their way to do the same. Cancer thanked Capricorn as they passed each other in the doorway, and it was once again quiet.